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1 SUV's (was "Re: mystery solved") -- rank: 1000

... sign of the growing colonization of the banks by the SUV class of >people. Sad. I sez: This innocuous remark -- and ... list -- raises at least two questions: 1) who are the "SUV class of people" ? and 2) why are they the "SUV class of people" ? Despite my reservations about employing a form ... astonished and disgusted by the sheer number of freshly minted SUV's on the road. Here in nominally "environmentally progressive" Santa ... perhaps even third) passenger vehicle on the road is an SUV, many of them luxury models, and many of them fresh ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Tue May 22 16:36:28 PDT 2001

2 Fwd: Nation's SUV Critics Gaining Traction -- rank: 754

... victoryiscertain.com> To: mail at victoryiscertain.com Subject: Nation's SUV Critics Gaining Traction Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:44 ... Wednesday, December 18, 2002 by the Seattle Times > > Nation's SUV Critics Are Gaining Traction > > by Froma Harrop > > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/134597743_harrop18.html > > > Defenders of the SUV can contain themselves no longer. A new book dedicated > to ... the defenders have taken to attacking > people who express anti-SUV views, rather than the views. > > Count me among the SUV critics, though with some reservations. I do not > think that SUV owners are necessarily headed for the hot place

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Dec 19 12:12:23 PST 2002

3 Portrait of the SUV driver as asshole -- rank: 720

... t a coincidence. Unlike any other vehicle before it, the SUV is the car of choice for the nation's most self-centered people; and the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to ... research, automakers have, over the past decade, ramped up their SUV designs to appeal even more to the "reptilian" instincts of ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Dec 5 11:11:15 PST 2002

4 Cooper on SUVs -- rank: 667

Tough Driving SUV owners: Park it - right now, before I hurt you By ... a Yankee-class attack submarine. Yes, it's true, you SUV drivers are three times more likely than someone piloting an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 23 08:49:58 PDT 2000

5 ... the Eternal Optimism Dept: Gas prices don't scare off SUV buyers -- rank: 650

Gas prices don't scare off SUV buyers Through February, SUV sales were up 18% over the first two months a ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Mar 19 10:06:46 PST 2004

6 David Brooks fulminates -- rank: 650

... editorial/feature.html?id=110002940> ON THE ROAD The Scarlet SUV Who's against sport-utility vehicles? A bunch of geeks ... 2003 12:01 a.m. I don't own an SUV, but now that they've been identified as the locus ... wolf out for a rampage and get the most obnoxious SUV I can find. My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 13:20:48 PST 2003

7 The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology.... -- rank: 650

... 05-01, Ian wrote: > > But maybe the expression of anti-SUV sentiment is really an attack >on a > > symptom of the ... form of an attack on the victims. ...Victims? What are SUV owners the victims of, other than our attacks? >The attacks ... b)are focused on a non-existent category. That is, SUV drivers do >not constitute a unified category about which

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Author:	Joanna Sheldon
Date:	Fri May 25 16:36:16 PDT 2001

8 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 650

... Monthly. Posted December 20, 2002. A new book says the SUV is the car of choice for the nation's most self-centered people -- and the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Thu Nov 2 03:21:00 PST 2006

9 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 650

... seen in one. >> Based on my casual and unscientific observations, SUV drivers are more >> likely to be assholes than drivers of ... vehicles. <...> >> > > > Well, you may be right... I own a mini-SUV (Toyota RAV4), I do live > in New Jersey, and I ... during anti- > war marches, etc. > > --ravi Market research shows that SUV drivers are more selfish than drivers who choose other vehicles ... of irrational fears, and are more anti-social. Research shows SUV owners are more willing to put others at risk to ... not willing to do this to some extent only that SUV buyers are noticeably more willing to do this than others. The SUV appeals to persons

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Fri Jul 20 10:53:47 PDT 2007

10 [lbo-talk] more on fuel economy -- rank: 597

... it. One of the strangest contradiction in the reasoning for SUV purchases by women was fear of attackers. It was either ... women gave (I can't recall which) for purchasing an SUV. The SUV sat high enough that women felt no one could hide ... one can actually get under and out from under an SUV rather quickly and easily. Logically this reasoning should dictate purchasing ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Thu Jul 19 21:28:32 PDT 2007

11 [lbo-talk] Re: Hummers (was Re: SUV<URL: http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0106/0022.html > ) -- rank: 597

... Keith Bradsher of the NYT has a newish book on SUV's. On his Fresh Air NPR Terry Gross interview he talked about market research on SUV owners as arrogant, upper-middle class white male mofos. <URL ... keithbradsher > <URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=Keith+Bradsher+SUV > -- Michael Pugliese "Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon May 12 22:53:25 PDT 2003

12 SUV's -- rank: 597

Last night two people I was riding with, in an SUV, started arguing. One stating that the SUV guzzled gas. The SUV driver pointing out that he lived 5 min. from work ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sun Sep 23 21:21:49 PDT 2001

13 SUV's (was "Re: mystery solved") -- rank: 575

... s _Amicus >Journal_, for example) -- these pages are studded with SUV ad after SUV ad. >What makes these ads work -- vindicating the manufacturers' decision ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed May 23 07:05:16 PDT 2001

14 [lbo-talk] Congress expands SUV tax break -- rank: 575

Congress Clears Tax Incentive for SUV Purchases Fri May 23, 7:08 PM ET By John ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 24 11:12:12 PDT 2003

15 [lbo-talk] Wife hits husband with SUV after argument over recalls -- rank: 575

... 6:31 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Wife hits husband with SUV after argument over recalls http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin ... after-vote-argument-ke5bdap-150697635.html Wife hits husband with SUV after argument over recalls Chippewa Falls man hospitalized with head ...

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Author:	John Wesley
Date:	Wed May 9 16:35:48 PDT 2012